Sutter-Yuba County Biographies

ARNOLD EMIL ZWANCK

Transcribed by: Kathy Sedler

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            An expert interior decorator, whose success has enabled him to 
increase the volume of his business steadily as both painter and paper-hanger, 
is Arnold Emil Zwanck, of Yuba City.  A native of Germany, he was born at 
Hamburg on January 20, 1885, the son of Arnold E. and Henrietta (Wolf) Zwanck.  
His father was a machinist, and was engaged as such on the steamers plying 
between Hamburg and the West Indies; he died at the early age of twenty-seven.  
The grandfather was also a steamer captain.  Mrs. Zwanck, the mother, came to 
the United States and California, and is now living at  San Francisco.
            Arnold Zwanck attended the public-schools of Marysville and the 
mountain towns, having been brought by his mother to the former place when he 
was only eighteen months old.  As a mere boy he began to work to provide for his 
�keep�; and like so many another, he found the selling of newspapers about the 
best means for helping himself.  Later he took up clerical work, and then he 
went to San Francisco and secured employment in the Union Iron Works.  For three 
years he was in business in Marysville, and next he began to learn the painter�s 
trade.  About fifteen years ago he established himself in business in Marysville 
as a contracting painter and decorator.  Selling his business, he then worked at 
his trade for a few years, until July 1, 1922, when he opened up in business in 
Yuba City, doing a general contracting business as a painter.  Among the jobs he 
has completed are the residences of Arthur Chase, W. G. Williamson, Claire 
Jones, and J. Eugene Morrison; and many others attest to his ability and speak 
for themselves.  He has about all the work he can take care of and employs as 
man as ten men to accomplish some of his contracts on time.  He is a member of 
the Yuba City Chamber of Commerce.  In party affiliations he is a stanch 
Republican.
            In Marysville, in 1907, Mr. Zwanck was married to Miss Mae Norman, a 
native daughter of Yuba City, who was reared at Marysville.  One child blessed 
this union, Henry Arnold Zwanck, a senior in the Marysville High School.  Mr. 
Zwanck is fond of hunting and trout fishing.  Fraternally, he belongs to the 
Knights of Pythias, the Woodmen of the World, and the Foresters of America.  He 
was a member of the Marysville Fire Department, and also of Company D, 2nd 
Regiment, C. N. G.
 
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p . 1307-1308